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Congrats to the laureates! Maybe a Computing prize should be created though, like Nobel did not create the "nobel prize of economy".Though you could argue that Computing is Math? What are computer scientists usually awarded with?

edit: s/rewarded/awarded

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I think there's some backlash against a google-able answer here.

However, from memory the list of biggest awards for CS/Math are:

Fields medal

Abel prize

Turing award

Godel award

Kanellakis award too for theoretical cs https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_Kanellakis_Award

I don't think Geoff Hinton is in the running for a Fields medal[1] any more, unless they did what they did for Andrew Wiles and give him a "quantized" Fields medal.

[1] You have to be under 40. https://www.fields.utoronto.ca/aboutus/jcfields/fields_medal...

Hinton was never in the running for a Fields medal since he never made a single contribution to the field of mathematics. His work is about empirical discoveries in CS.

>What are computer scientists usually rewarded with?

The Turing Award is considered by most to be the highest award in computer science.

Hinton already won a Turing award, so this Nobel just seems doubly absurd.

I hope he turns it down, but it's a monetary prize too and it takes a lot of dedication to science to turn it down.

Isn’t he a socialist?

Doesn't matter. He wants to work on AI risk, right?

Unsure of your point - I meant he doesn’t believe in provate property, so the prize money shouldn’t be a factor.

If he truly believes what he says he believes.

Because you can use money to do things? Even if you don't want private property after AGI, you need it now.

Believing that you can do a better job of allocating your Nobel prize money than a central authority is free-market thinking.

If he’s a socialist, he should donate all his property to the government, including the entire prize money.

Isn't the standard AI doom position that the government taking control just kills everyone a few years later? The money would be for research, not welfare or whatever the government would use it for.

Oh yeah! I forgot about this one! Extremely prestigious in CS but less known by the public unfortunately.

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